mr. konvicka says that gustav will still be a tropical storm even as far inland as east of fort polk and leesville. [fort polk radar]

hurricane force gusts of wind (74mph+) are possible south and east of alexandria. there is a high risk of tornadoes because much of the area will be near the center-line and/or to the right of the center-line.

central louisiana could see 10" - 15" of rain; perhaps even 20" which will cause flooding.

hurricane gustav is expected to come ashore around noon central time monday 01 september 2008.====

saturday 30 august 2008 interview about hurricane gustav preparation from governor piyush "bobby" jindal, who is at new orleans.aired at 1:28 p.m. cdt

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cnn interview of general victor e. renuart, jr., usaf [bio] commander north american aerospace defense command [norad] and united states northern command [usnorthcom] about the military's preparation for and planned response to hurricane gustav.aired at 10:30 a.m. cdt saturday 30 august 2008

29 August 2008

over on thetowntalk.com they have an article 'watch live streaming video from pineville jamboree' (see link) they have a live stream video player embedded in the article and you can also get the code and embed it on other websites and blogs:

town talk live stream video embed player====

full screen mode

the full screen mode is nice and the sound and pictures are very clear. the video was not smooth at all for us but that is probably due to our old computer rather than the town talk's equipment. for instance our cpu was maxed out at 100%.

there is also a chat room function so that game viewers can interact with each other.

one suggestion that we would make is that it would be better if the embed player didnt automatically load and begin to play especially since the player is embeddable on other blogs and websites.

all in all this is a great idea and we wish them success.

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UPDATE: mr. ussery with the town talk tells us via the chat room why the live video was so choppy. the town talk is currently playing game highlights and the video for that is fine.

we noticed that john mcmadman mccain chose van halen's "right now" as his intro and outro song at this mornings vice presidential running mate announcement at dayton, ohio. what an interesting choice of songs.

perhaps these screen grabs from the video more clearly explain mcmadman mccain's choice::

part 1 of 2 direct link to part 2senator obama took the stage at 11 minutes past the hour - 9:11 p.m. cdt. thankfully, all the talk about his giving his speech 'from a greek temple' turned out to be another case of rovian hyperbole. senator obama delivers a great speech and its easy to see how so many have fallen under his spell. however, the reality is that there is no difference between senator obama's and senator mcmadman mccain's policies.

"they want more troops in afghanistan. they want to send more support to georgia to protect the oil line there. neither one says bring home the troops from iraq from the bases -- you know the bases are going to stay there, the embassy as big as the vatican, that's going to remain. So their foreign policies are exactly the same," he added.

the former republican presidential candidate said that the two candidates are both threats to the us national interests. ~ read more [link to cnn interview video]

curiously, one of the little reported facts surrounding the 2008 democratic national convention was that a registered and life-long republican and iraq war veteran, michael wilson, was the person who officially placed senator obama's name in nomination.

mr. wilson said that that it "is my distinct honor as an iraq war veteran, as a life-long republican and as a proud citizen of this great democracy to nominate the next president of the united states of america, barack obama!"

katrina mary has a long and sordid history of making stupid decisions against the best interest of her constituents in order for her to curry favor with her senatorial pals -- see S.2128 nutty katrina mary landrieu snellings wants to tax the internet "the senate was poised to vote on a permanent extension of the ban on internet taxation thursday night. however, sen. mary landrieu (d-la) voiced objection to S. 2128, the permanent internet tax freedom act, effectively halting the vote.

while the senator stated that her objection was on behalf of senator tom carper (d-de), she helped to thwart a similar bill in 2003." ~ read more

AT 1100 AM AST...1500Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM HANNA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 20.5 NORTH...LONGITUDE 59.2 WEST OR ABOUT 305 MILES...490 KM...NORTHEAST OF THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS.

HANNA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MPH...19 KM/HR. A TURN TOWARD THE NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED LATER TODAY. ON THE FORECAST TRACK...HANNA WILL MOVE AWAY FROM THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS AND BE CENTERED WELL TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE BAHAMAS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 40 MPH...65 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ~ read more

although it probably wont receive any media attention - the best line of senator clinton's speech: "the biggest deficit in our nations history, money borrowed from the chinese to buy oil from the saudis."

kalb's mike magnoli takes us to 94 florence avenue, alexandria, la. the police are looking for the driver of a black mitsubishi gallant who jumped out of the car, with a gun and ran during what may or may not have been a routine traffic stop. the alexandria police department believed that the suspect may have been hiding in an abandoned home at 94 florence avenue.

billed as "The "first weekly Administrative Briefing and Update" by Mayor Jacques Roy’s administration." it appears to be the fulfillment of mayor roys statement on ksyl radio that he was soon going to be demanding equal time to get his message out, was held this morning.

26 August 2008

item number 43 of the tuesday, 26 august 2008 city of alexandria, la. city council agenda read:

To memorialize the passing of Les Whitt, City of Alexandria Zoo Director since 1974 and to consider an appropriate memoriam.

council president, louis marshall, said that at the request of mr. whitt's family the item was pulled until they finish their grieving process and that "until such time as ms. whitt and her family finish their grieving process, then we'll revisit item number 43." mr. greg gormanous rose to speak a few words about mr. whitt. at the request of councilman roosevelt johnson the council and audience stood for a moment of silence in memory of mr. whitt.

a commenter on the times-picayune gave us the idea for this post. all the baby name sites seem to agree that the name gustav means "staff of the gods."

in 2005 shortly after hurricane katrina struck new orleans cancelling southern decadence, there was some talk about katrina's name and its meaning which is pure or purifying and the significance and coincidentalness (if any) of it all. so we shall see.

around 31 july 2008 city of alexandria, louisiana mayor jacques roy, gave the second of whats come to be called his 'annual state of the city' address. mayor roy used the occasion to announce a new department head level position for the city called "'deputy chief of policy' and the city's first principled 'diversity officer.'"[2nd annual state of the city of alexandria video at time 33 minutes] [part 2]

immediately before the mayor's announcement he spoke about the 04 october 2007 downtown alexandria shooting incident and used that as the means to justify this new position. although the mayor admitted that the shooting incident wasnt due to racism. he said that "therefore, we're going to look at how our community can respond to seemingly unprovoked rage, what leads to that, what its root causes are and what we can do to prevent it."

first off, the mayor doesnt need to waste a lot of taxpayer dollars to hire someone to find out, when the answer is obvious. in fact, we'll give the mayor the answer for free and save a lot taxpayer money - the answer is because of sin. see saint matthew chapter fifteen verse nineteen.

the mayor goes on to say that some of the duties of this new position will be to "educate the public on behaviors to watch in our coworkers, in our family members and what we can do to stop, interfere, intercede, intervene, before these things happen." where in the constitution does it give the city the authority to do this? this all about "political correctness" and enforcing it. and its about creating a though-crimes bureaucracy. who is going to investigate the complaints or tips? where will all this information database be stored and who will it be shared with -- the sheriff's office? the state police? homeland security? will it be a public record - in other words can someone submit a public records request to find out who all has been reported to the city for exhibiting suspect "behavior?"

the mayor goes on to say that another purpose of this position wll be "to create a dialogue about relations across the socioeconomic and political spectrum of our city." 60 minutes correspondent mike wallace asked the actor morgan freeman "how are we going to get rid of racism?" mr. freeman's honest and candid reply was to "stop talking about it" [video clip] this is good advice that mayor roy and the city council should heed.

in the above video mr. page says that "i first want to be sure that the community understands how city government works and how they can provide that service and also be a listening ear.." apparently civics is no longer being taught in any alexandria junior or high school. thats a shame too because we had a great civics teacher at peabody magnet high school.

another question that comes to mind is just what is the city council and the mayor elected to do? isnt it their responsibility to be out in the community listening and watching so that they have personal, first-hand knowledge of whats going on and what needs to be done to formulate ordinances and policies to create a better alexandria? why do they want to insulate themselves from the people, to have information fed to them by another layer of bureaucracy whose observations and prejudices may run counter to their own?

we suppose that the mayor and the city council would prefer to sit in their gilded offices, free to think their great thoughts and dream their grand dreams over the sparc scheme instead.

unfortunately, the sparc scheme is never going to amount to a hill of beans either, because its founded on a fraud and deceit. in less than a minute on 18 july 2008 the louisiana state bond commission, chaired by the brown bagger guy, approved some $40 million dollars of bonds to begin the financing of mayor roy's sparc scheme.

one of the means pledged by the city to repay these bonds is the proceeds of a 1% sales and use tax that alexandrians foolishly approved on 21 july 2007.

and alexandrians were foolish to approve this tax, its never going to expire. its in perpetuity. see a rude awakening for realtor wolf. now think about that for a minute. the mayor, the city council, the city attorney , the city finance director and others all got together and conspired to place a tax proposal on the ballot which will never expire.

this means that alexandrians not even born yet will be tasked to pay this tax and will never have a say in it. no matter how one looks at it or attempts to explain it away -- that is called slavery. and this is the caliber of people that alexandrians have running their city government right now.

someone please tell us when the city's new 'diversity' officer is going to explain to ms. linda antoine [here is some interesting background on her] and mr. bobby ray taylor, that their children and their childrens children are (thanks to the city) governmental tax slaves. we would love to witness that conversation.

25 August 2008

Fred Crane, 90, spoke first line in ‘Gone With the Wind’By KAY POWELLThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionMonday, August 25, 2008

Fred Crane spoke the first lines in the "Gone With the Wind" movie as one of the red-headed Tarleton twins flirting with Scarlett O'Hara before the Twelve Oaks barbecue.

His line doesn't compare to Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn," but it did provoke one of Scarlett’s signature phrases: "Fiddle-dee-dee."

Mr. Crane was 20 and not an actor when he was awarded the role of Brent Tarleton. On a whim, the New Orleans native had accompanied a cousin to her audition for the movie, he said in a 2007 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article. The casting director heard his Southern accent, and that’s what earned him the $50-a-week role.

"I’m just a small shard in a grand mosaic," he said. "I'm the last man standing."

Mr. Crane, 90, the last living male actor who had a credited role in the movie, died of complications from diabetes Thursday. He had lived in Barnesville and operated a bed and breakfast before selling it in 2007.

Claiming reasons of privacy, his wife, Terry Lynn Crane, would not reveal Mr. Crane's city of residence, where he died or the cremation society in charge of arrangements. No service is planned.

In the classic 1939 movie, Mr. Crane’s first line was: "What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is going to start any day now, so we’d have left college anyhow."

Scarlett’s reply: "Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring."

Mr. Crane’s twin was played by George Bessolo, who changed his name to George Reeves and won fame as TV’s Superman. The barbecue scene had to be shot three times, Mr. Crane said — one reshoot because the twins' red hair was too curly, and another because Scarlett, played by Vivien Leigh, was showing too much bosom. Mr. Crane appeared in four other scenes. ~ read more

on 20 august 2008 we posted the lsu team roster from 1978 and 1979. someone sent us these documents claiming that they disputed statements made by alexandria, louisiana city marshall candidate, t.a. messina in which he stated on his official campaign website that he played for lsu in 1977,'78 and '79.

according to our emailer the 1977 team roster wasnt available while the '78 and '79 lsu football team rosters failed to list mr. messina by name and/or jersey number.

this was a very odd and ambiguous photograph for someone to post as proof that they played football. why not, for example, simply produce a team photograph?

we'll be the first to admit that sports isnt our forte and the picture presented more questions than answers.

for example, according to the 1979 lsu numerical roster there is no listing for the number 4.

click here to download the 1978 and 1979 lsu team roster(s) - two page .pdf

another example is the lsu player on the left side of the photograph, which we cropped and rotated 180 degrees, so that you can see that his last name ends in "ch" and when you look at the 1979 lsu numerical roster no player name listed ends with "ch."the other lsu player in the photograph -- jersey number is 62 and according to the 1979 lsu numeric roster belongs to a 6'2" 229lb offensive guard, from fort walton beach, florida named miles valentine.

so at this point we thought that it was possible that our emailer had altered the documents and removed mr. messina. however, this didnt explain that if this was indeed the case, how would our emailer know to remove the person whose name ends in "ch" too?

according to lsu football statistics -- lsusports.net -- the official website of lsu tigers athletics: "LSU Football Statsistics [sic] prior to 1995 are not yet available online. Please contact the LSU Sports Information Department at 225.578.8226 to request these offline." so we phoned up the lsu sports information department, but by this time it was friday afternoon and no one was there.

so we phoned them up again this morning and had the pleasure of speaking to a real nice lady there. we explained to her what information we were looking for and she said that from the information that she had available to her right then, that mr. messina did not letter for lsu. she explained that this meant that he did not play long enough to letter.

so we asked her for the box score stats, particularly the play-by-play statistics, the individual statistics and team statistics for the 15 september 1979 lsu at colorado football game that lsu won 44 - 0.

she explained that the sports department was real busy today, that today is head coach les miles media day or something or other and that it might take awhile for them to fulfill our request - to which we said that we understood and that was fine.

so, we were pleasantly surprised that within a few minutes we received an email from jake terry with lsu sports information and mr. terry's email is reproduced below:

I was asked to look up stats from the 1979 football game between LSU and Colorado to see if T.A. Messina was found in the play-by-play records. In the fourth quarter with 1:11 left to play, Messina kicked the PAT on LSU's last touchdown to make it 44-0. In the 1980 media guide in the game recap section, the final sentence of the Colorado recap says something to the effect of "T.A. Messina kicked the final PAT to cap off a near perfect day for the Tigers in the Rockies." If you were looking for proof that he played and kicked for LSU, that is it. Let me know if you need any other information. I hope this was what you were looking for.

AT 200 PM EDT...1800Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM GUSTAV WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 15.8 NORTH...LONGITUDE 70.5 WEST OR ABOUT 225 MILES...365 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF PORT AU PRINCE HAITI.

GUSTAV IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 14 MPH...22 KM/HR...AND A GRADUAL DECREASE IN FORWARD SPEED IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. ON THE FORECAST TRACK THE CENTER OF GUSTAV WILL BE MOVING NEAR OR OVER SOUTHWESTERN HAITI ON TUESDAY.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 60 MPH...95 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS...AND GUSTAV COULD STRENGTHEN INTO A HURRICANE PRIOR TO MOVING OVER LAND. ~ read more

AT 11 AM EDT...1500 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE SOUTH COAST OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FROM SANTO DOMINGO WESTWARD TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF HAITI. ~ read more

24 August 2008

faux proves once again how they will spin anything into their own version of reality -- get a load of the commentary by the air-head back in the studio: "griff jenkins in the midst of the crowd, giving them the chance to speak out, to tell what their message is and they're not even talking, all they're doing is screaming and yelling at him." looks to us like the protesters were getting their message out perfectly.

Once again, "pro-life" Christians are doing back flips to try and justify their compromise of the life issue by trying to convince everyone (including themselves) that John McCain is truly pro-life. However, these same people know in their hearts that John McCain shares no fidelity to the life issue in any significant or meaningful way. Like many in the Republican Party, McCain's commitment to life is about as deep as a mud puddle.

Dare I remind everyone that the "pro-life" GOP controlled the entire federal government from 2000 to 2006 and nothing was done to overturn Roe v. Wade or end legal abortion-on-demand? When George W. Bush took the oath of office in January of 2001, over one million innocent unborn babies were being murdered in the wombs of their mothers every year via legal abortions in this country. And when George W. Bush leaves office in January of 2009, over one million innocent unborn babies would still be murdered in the wombs of their mothers every year via legal abortions in this country. Eight years of a "pro-life" President and six years of the "pro-life" GOP in charge of the entire federal government and not one unborn baby's life has been saved. Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, and abortion-on-demand is still legal in America.

Had John McCain and his fellow Republicans truly wanted to end legal abortion, they could have passed Congressman Ron Paul's Sanctity of Life Act. Year after year, Dr. Paul introduced this bill, and year after year, it sat and collected dust in the document room on Capitol Hill.

What would Congressman Paul's bill do? It would do two things: 1) It would define life as beginning at conception and, thus, declare the personhood of every pre-born child. 2) Under Article. III. Section. 2. of the U.S. Constitution, it would remove abortion from the jurisdiction of the Court. In practical terms, Dr. Paul's bill would overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion-on-demand. So, where was John McCain? Why did he not support Ron Paul's bill and introduce a companion bill in the U.S. Senate?

How can John McCain, and his fellow Republicans in Washington, D.C., look pro-life Christians and conservatives in the eye in 2008 and expect that we take them seriously when they say that they are "pro-life"? If the GOP had truly wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion-on-demand, they could have already done it. They controlled the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the House of Representatives for six long years, for goodness sake. The reason they did not do it is because they did not want to do it. They merely want to use "pro-life" rhetoric as a campaign tool to dupe gullible Christian voters every election year. And the disgusting thing about it is--it works.

The vast majority of notable "pro-life" leaders in the country are now trumpeting the candidacy of John McCain. And the best challenge they can come up with is "McCain better not pick a 'pro-choice' Vice President." Oh, shut up (to quote Jay Leno)!

John McCain openly embraces embryonic stem cell research. In 2000, he boldly said he did not favor the overturn of Roe v. Wade. John McCain was a member of the infamous "Gang of 14" senators from both parties whose purpose was to oppose pro-life, strict constructionist judges.

Speaking of judges, John McCain voted for the pro-abortion justice, Stephen Breyer, and the radical, pro-abortion, ACLU attorney, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So much for the argument that we need John McCain for the sake of appointing conservative justices to the Supreme Court. For that matter, Republican appointments dominated the Court that gave us Roe v. Wade and the one that later gave us Doe v. Bolton. Proving, once again, that the Republican Party, as a whole, has no real commitment to the life issue.

John McCain also gave us McCain-Feingold. This is the law that keeps pro-life or pro-Second Amendment organizations from broadcasting ads that mention a candidate by name 30 days before a primary election or 60 days before a general election. This proves that John McCain believes neither in the right to life nor the right to keep and bear arms. (This is one reason why the Gun Owners of America gives McCain a grade of F.)

In a debate with George W. Bush in May of 2000, John McCain attacked Bush's support for the pro-life plank in the Republican Party. Still today, John McCain believes that babies who are conceived via rape or incest should be murdered. I remind readers, however, that there are no "exceptions" in the womb, only babies.

If all of the above is not enough, as a senator, John McCain has repeatedly voted to fund pro-abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood with federal tax dollars. In fact, McCain has voted to use federal tax dollars to support abortion providers at home and overseas. Yes, this "pro-life" senator (along with "pro-life" President, George W. Bush) has significantly increased federal spending for abortion providers to levels eclipsing even the appropriations authorized by President Bill Clinton and his fellow Democrats.

John McCain also supports the United Nations, which not only works to strip the United States of its independence and sovereignty, and banish our right to keep and bear arms, but is also the most radical, pro-abortion organization in the entire world. More babies have been aborted around the world under the auspices of the U.N. than any other single entity.

Upon contacting of Startlogic they reason's for the suspension of these web sites sounds insincere. Startlogic claims that the sites have been suspended due to an unforeseen amount of traffice and strain on the server and that startlogic cannot unsuspend the account nor can they allow for me to access any of the files from the sites.

Me personally, I find the statements by Startlogic to be complete BS.

So folks until I can figure out how to set up the site on a VPS private server I guess the Obama/Biden camp have won for the day anyway.

23 August 2008

UPDATE: mr. berg mentions 911 a couple of times so we checked to see if eric hufschmid has any information on him, it turns out that mr. berg is quite a character: Phil Berg

He was the lawyer for Ellen Mariani, whose husband supposedly died during the 9-11 attack. Berg claimed to be filing a lawsuit against the government. He has been involved in 9-11 for years, but what has he accomplished? How is he making a living?

In his speech he says that George Bush must be held accountable for 9-11. Why George Bush? Why not the people who blew up the towers? Why not include the media executives who suppress evidence? What about the Zionists, Mr. Berg? Can we hold them accountable, also? click here for more.

Tomorrow, (24 August 2008) on the Sunday show at noon (Bryan Crouch Show), and again on Monday at 5:00 p.m. on Acadiana Uncovered, I will be interviewing Philip J. Berg, Esq., the PA attorney who has sued Obama in Federal Court, forcing him to prove he is either a natural born citizen of The United States OR took the necessary steps to become a legal citizen, etc., which is a definite qualification to even run for President. To date, the questions have gone unanswered by Obama's camp.

He has been "swamped" with requests for interviews, but wanted very much to reach Louisiana..

Berg is a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for Governor and U.S. Senate in Democratic Primaries; former Chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County; former member of Democratic State Committee; an attorney with offices in Montgomery County, PA and an active practice in Philadelphia, PA, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court, Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083, seeking a Declaratory Judgment and an Injunction that Obama does not meet the qualifications to be President of the United States. Berg filed this suit for the best interests of the Democratic Party and the citizens of the United States.

so...this is supposed to be the 'change we can believe in ' eh? this is no change at all, its just more of the same.

barky obama chooses an old dinosaur who has been in the united states senate since 1972 (36 years) and who had to give up his 1988 campaign for the democratic party presidential nomination when it was discovered that he is a plagiarizer.

22 August 2008

...CENTER OF FAY EMERGES OVER THE EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GULF...FAY IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 8 MPH...13 KM/HR. ON THE FORECAST TRACK...THE CENTER OF FAY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NEAR OR OVER THE NORTHEASTERN GULF COAST ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

Over the last year, I have found myself in a completely different area of life than I was always used to. The day I stepped into the arena with the Valiant Lafayetteers (the opposition to the ticket extortion program), which we were named by a friend in Alexandria, was a day I will never forget. It was the day that I woke up and truly understood that government has to be watched and politicians need to be held accountable for their actions or lack thereof. The duty of citizens does not stop at the polls, unfortunately.

One example of government gone bad is the Red Light/Speedvan scam that has been placed on the heads of the good citizens of Louisiana. Politicians and bureaucrats alike, at least in Lafayette, were told by officials that this program is illegal in the State of Louisiana. And, instead of listening to those officials who knew better, Lafayette Consolidated Government and Tony Tramel, who is the Director of Traffic and Transportation in Lafayette, chose to "throw the deck up and see where the cards fall." Literally.

First and foremost, Louisiana has a specific state law (LA R.S. 32:365) prohibiting even police officers from recording vehicles in violation of traffic safety laws with citations for such violations to be mailed to the alleged violator at a later date.

So, it is baffling to know that our local politicians gave Redflex Traffic Systems permission to do what police officers themselves are prohibited from doing.

Let’s not forget the fact that the Louisiana Legislature denied legislation four times that would allow this type of program in Louisiana. However, Lafayette Consolidated Government, hiding behind their Home Rule Charter, did it anyway. I guess, as someone once said to me, it is easier to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

Well, now our local government will need to answer to its citizens and ask for forgiveness by answering the class-action lawsuit that has been filed against it.

Not only is it, in my opinion, not the role of the government to control and change the behavior of its citizens, but it is also disgusting to place a sneaky new tax on the over-taxed citizens of Louisiana and tell us it’s for our benefit.

Not only did Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc. come into the State of Louisiana and violate numerous state and constitutional laws, but its salesman, Charlie Buckles of Lafayette, has continuallytried to push this program by delivering inaccuracies and promises to local governments.

A little wink, wink, nod, nod and this wonderful program can be yours too! Mr. Buckles is not a registered lobbyist is he?

Before citizens decide to give in and pay the extortion notices, I encourage each one to do the research. Google is a powerful tool and much is to be found by searching "Redflex."

I also encourage the citizens of Lafayette and Louisiana for that matter, to look into the window of your government and ask yourselves, "What’s really going on?" You may want to keep one phrase in mind to help you see through the foggy glass – "Follow the money."

====see alsothe newspaper.comredflex series====and alsothe redflex label in the footer of this post====

however, if you read the fifteen page .pdf of the louisiana attorney disciplinary board, hearing committee#1 report and recommendation, in re: john m. sharp, which is the document that the town talk and kalb are basing their stories off of, you will see that all the complaint boils down to is lawyers stealing from lawyers. so what.

nowhere in the document does it say or suggest that mr. sharp's clients were harmed by him and his actions and thats all that matters. actually, mr. sharp did what his clients asked: "mr. brady asked mr. sharp if he and his family could retain the entirety of the settlement proceeds and pay the firm its fees and expenses owed over some loosely defined period of time. mr. sharp agreed..." [.pdf page 3] that would seem to be a pretty risky agreement to enter into. the ladb notes that: "it is crystal clear that the entire $150,000.00, including the firms earned fees and costs, was turned over to the brady's." [.pdf page 4] now thats our kind of lawyer. and this is really what mr. sharp's fellow members of the bar are pissed over.

if you notice the ladb never really says why mr. sharp did what he did. oh sure, they have a lot of pages in which they discuss mr. sharp's attention deficit disorder(ADD/ADHD). all this is, is an attempt an shift the blame and to make mr. sharp appear crazy. the ladb mentions that mr. sharp said that he did it because of "greed and arrogance," but thats no explanation

"other witnesses [namely his former partners: dupuy, colvin, weaver, cerniglia and davis] each of them spoke quite well of sharp and all appeared to look up to him as a professional. the testimony reveals that during the relevant time, he met deadlines, worked a rigorous schedule in a very detail oriented and complicated area of law, and generally comported himself very well as an attorney." [.pdf page 10]

if you notice mr. sharp's name came first on the firm's letterhead and he was the managing partner. so for all we know, this could have been nothing more than a mole hill, that mr. sharp's partners made into a mountain in order to get rid of him so they could take over his client list.

perhaps, the real reason was because mr. sharp though that his firm was overbilling its clients - we know that in some law firms that certainly goes on. so we suspect that there is a whole lot more going on here than what the ladb would have us believe.

however, the 'crystal clear' message that the ladb is sending out is: lawyers dont steal from other lawyers or else you will be disbarred and made to appear crazy.

whilst we were over on the labd website we happened to notice another case from 06 june 2008: in re: darrel d. ryland [nine page .pdf]. mr. ryland is a marksville, (avoyelles parish) la. attorney and president of union bank. [.pdf] this action received scant local media attention.

heres a case where a lawyer was literally screwing his client and the louisiana state supreme court merely suspended mr. ryland from the practice of law for ninety days and deferred that -- subject to mr. ryland's successful completion of the additional hours of continuing legal education

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google video disables two barack obama videos that had been live for months. senator obama's 'a more perfect union' speech had been live since 18 march 2008 and had been viewed thousands of times. senator obama's aipac speech had been live for over two and a half months. after all this time, google video suddenly discovers that they might lack the necessary copyright authorization for use on the google video site?

sounds suspicious to us -- like earlier this month when googles' blogger tards went around and "locked" many, many blogs including this one under the pretense of being suspected spam blogs. only thing was, was that after bloggers began comparing notes -- it turned out that most, if not all, the blogs that were locked were either overtly anti-obama blogs or could be perceived as being unfriendly to senator obama. see new york sun [via drudge] 'anti-obama bloggers say they were silenced' for one news report about the incident.

now we have google video arbitrarily taking down senator obama's videos. we can say that google video acted arbitrarily with respect to the 'a more perfect union speech' because back in march on the day of or within a day or two after we uploaded it, someone from nbc/universal (it was recorded from msnbc) clicked through to this blog from the link provided in the video's details page. so if nbc cared about the video being posted then why didnt they file a copyright claim back then? hmmm.